Discusses National Industries for the Blind which was established in 1938 as a result of the Wagner-O'Day Act. National Industries serves the vocational needs of multihandicapped blind people. (Availability: Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20401) (JOW)

Boatworks, a subsidiary of Stepping Stones Growth Center in Oakland, California, provides work experience to developmentally disabled persons and helps them learn skills useful in private sector jobs. Workers learn job responsibility, quality control, and work safety procedures and are paid according to productivity. (CB)

In the rehabilitation workshop there is insufficient attention to job development oriented to the current and future needs of industry. Many types of work which were done in vocational workshops in contract from industrial firms are now done by automation. Semiskilled labor is thus in diminished demand. There is a twenty year lag in the industrial…

Reported are results of a (1974-75) project in a New Hampshire school district which assessed the vocational needs of handicapped children in that district, the potential for their employment in the community, and the school potential for vocational programs. Provided is information such as the number of children by handicaps and present status…

Seven papers examine issues in vocational education for the moderately to severely handicapped. The first paper, "Introduction: Perspectives on Vocational Education" and "Rehabilitation for the Handicapped" by C. Hansen and N. Haring sets out terms and definitions and provides an overview for the text. C. Hansen's second paper,…

THE AUTHOR RELATES HOW HE AND HIS WIFE LEARNED ABOUT MENTAL RETARDATION IN EACH OF THEIR THREE CHILDREN, HOW THEY REACTED, AND HOW THEY TRIED TO COPE WITH THE SITUATION. HE DESCRIBES THEIR EXPERIENCES IN ATTEMPTING TO BUILD A FUTURE FOR THEIR CHILDREN BY HELPING TO ORGANIZE SEVERAL PARENT ASSOCIATIONS, CREATE THE FIRST VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER…